Are People That Annoying or Is It Just Me?

I HATE that vocal fry thing. I also hate the tendency for (mostly young) people to add an extra syllable "uh" to words. It's particularly noticeable when they are exasperated, like "Dad" becomes "Dad-uh." Actually, it sounds more like "Daaaaaaad-uh!" 😅
 
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Beth Gallagher said:
There are several young men living in a house down the street, or at least hanging out there. I have no idea who actually lives there anymore, but there are always several vehicles parked all around that place. (It's on the corner.) This morning, a few of them are out in the driveway working on a car, revving the engine and speeding up and down the street. The car sounds like it doesn't have a muffler on it and I'm getting crankier by the minute.

It seems like things that didn't bother me in the past just infuriate me these days. I need to calm down but I resent all the unnecessary NOISE. People are very inconsiderate.

What's aggravating you these days?
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One of the advantages of being 3/4 deaf is there is no noise that ever bothers me, regardless of how loud it is. 😄
I've heard people complaining about noisy kids in restaurants & barking dogs. I like noisy kids & I love any sound any animal makes anyway.
But reckless drivers really annoy me.
 
I like our next door neighbors, but I'd like to strangle one who has a lawn-care obsession. He has a large yard (double lot) and since he retired a few years ago he has mowed his grass at least twice a week. That was bad enough, but with advancing age he now splits the 2 weekly mowings into 4 days so I have to hear that droning lawnmower 4 days a week. He cuts his front yard one day, back yard the next. Skip 2 days then repeat. :mad:

I guess he's bored but it is really annoying. If we try to sit out on the patio with morning coffee, we have to yell at each other over the drone of that dang riding lawnmower.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I feel a bit of the angry old man sometimes when I'm in a restaurant, and people at another table feel the need to be unnecessarily loud, particularly with exaggerated laughter, as if everyone in the building (and some of those next door) has to know that they are having a good time.

He has since died, but the guy who lived across the street from us - a really nice guy - was an auctioneer, and he would offer whatever didn't sell at auction for sale from his yard, and people would sometimes park directly in front of our driveway, which is something I would assume anyone would have the good sense not to do. We still get that sometimes when they are holding a concert or something in the park a block and a half from there. Who can grow old enough to drive a car and not know better than to block someone's driveway?
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"Who can grow old enough to drive a car and not know better than to block someone's driveway?"

They know, they just do not care. They figure @ worst it is a ticket, which likely won't happen, and @ worst and even more unlikely to happen is that their vehicle will be towed.

IMO, unfortunately we now live in a world where common decency is almost unheard of.

I get Pizza guys that park "IN" my driveway, to deliver elsewhere. And ...... my driveway is a drive through, in one end, around the house, and out the other. I have had [in 25 yrs] about 3-4 people just drive through.
 
Buck Bailey said:
"Who can grow old enough to drive a car and not know better than to block someone's driveway?"

They know, they just do not care. They figure @ worst it is a ticket, which likely won't happen, and @ worst and even more unlikely to happen is that their vehicle will be towed.
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When I lived in Long Beach ages ago, parking spaces were hard to come by along the shore (I lived on Ocean Boulevard). Even on street-cleaning days, every space was filled because people considered the parking ticket a parking fee. I would sometimes have to park two blocks away from the duplex where I lived. My landlady owned some garages along the alley adjacent to my apartment and, after a couple of years, one opened up.

One morning, I was working the day shift, so I got up early to drive to work in Anaheim, and someone was parked in the alley in front of my garage. He had parked there a few other times, but not when I really needed to go anywhere, but I knew who it was. The duplex I was in was surrounded by high-rises, and he lived on the ground floor of one of them, near me. I knocked on his door, and he took a long time to answer. When he did, he was angry because he had to get up. He grumbled and insulted me the whole time he walked over to move his car.

A couple of weeks later, he was parked in front of my garage again. Rather than waking him up, since he had been so unhappy about that, I called the police. They told me they didn't handle parking disputes, but I could simply call a tow truck to move it. I did, and they did, and he never parked in front of my garage again. Since I didn't need an idiot friend, it was fine with me that he would never be a friend.
 
I was going to list How do they annoy me? Let me count the ways. (Shakespeare?)
It is sad that good manners or even mild consideration is no longer thought of as needed. People are maybe educated by the insanity in the media? We used to dress nicely for church, plane flights, going to 'the city'. We used to say excuse me and thank you. And over the last couple of decades that all decayed. But lately, here, things seem to be getting better, not worse.
Playing the devil's advocate, Things still bother me, but when I think about it, it is maybe me. The person in a hurry behind me is not doing it to annoy me. People/kids having fun with gay abandon are not even thinking about annoying me. I should learn to revel with them in my head, not growl there.

But then I will lose my curmudgeon standing.;)
 
Mary Stetler said:
I was going to list How do they annoy me? Let me count the ways. (Shakespeare?)
It is sad that good manners or even mild consideration is no longer thought of as needed. People are maybe educated by the insanity in the media? We used to dress nicely for church, plane flights, going to 'the city'. We used to say excuse me and thank you. And over the last couple of decades that all decayed. But lately, here, things seem to be getting better, not worse.
Playing the devil's advocate, Things still bother me, but when I think about it, it is maybe me. The person in a hurry behind me is not doing it to annoy me. People/kids having fun with gay abandon are not even thinking about annoying me. I should learn to revel with them in my head, not growl there.

But then I will lose my curmudgeon standing.;)
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It was Browning, not Shakespeare;)
 
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